The very same people who lambasted DEI efforts as a subversion of the meritocracy are happily taking money and jobs in the name of “viewpoint diversity”
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Kevin R. McClure
This is a deeply researched article showing the web of conservative foundations and think tanks supporting efforts like UNC’s “civic life” school. Basically, if you study U.S. history through a conservative lens, there’s money out there for you.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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To have the gall to erect, against the knowledge so painstakingly advanced, centers for "viewpoint diversity," with the explicit goal of supporting views that have not won the same success
The difference is that unlike POCs, the mediocre white guys didn't get through the door not because of a lack of connections, but because they weren't good enough.
https://bsky.app/profile/caramida.bsky.social/post/3kwa67uqkv52r
That the rich and the poor deserve their status.
That white men should always be at the top of the hierarchy
(The first rule of white club is don't talk about white club)
That is what "legacy" student means
Rich for nepotism
The DIPCHIT Maga think that these people won't kill them, but they have already been doing that to them and blaming someone else!
"What will convince them? This, & this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. & this must be done thoroughly: done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated:we must place ourselves avowedly with them."
Slavery & all things GOP
It didn't make me a marxist, but it did force me to change my perspective.
I thought they sprayed for Marxists last semester
https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-college-florida-republicans-higher-ed